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Blogs Liberty and Power Like the War on Drugs, the War on Terror is a War on the Constitution

Aug 8, 2005

Like the War on Drugs, the War on Terror is a War on the Constitution

by Liberty and Power

Nah, the War on Terror isn't violating anyone's civil liberties. Why that's all a bunch of paranoid lefty hoo-hah. Or maybe not. An artist wants to do a display on genetically-modified crops and the FBI seizes his materials and starts talking bio-terrorism charges? Damn well better be anthrax in there and not corn.